archiving as opposed to backing up

From: David V. Corbin <dvcorbin_at_optonline.net>
Date: Thu Sep 23 09:20:05 2004

>>>
>>> Over 2000 years ago, the ancient Romans & Greeks *knew* the
>>> Earth was round
>>> and orbited the sun. However, it seems all references to
>>> that knowledge was
>>> unavailable by the 1st millennium, when people once again
>>> thought the world
>>> was flat, and stayed that way for over 500 years. Had they
>>> access to the
>>> Roman and Greek libraries (assuming they existed, but I'd
>>> bet they kept
>>> their written documents somewhere) who knows what tech.
>>> advances (or wars
>>> averted) would have been possible.
>>>

Or wars caused, or techonologies NOT invented because what they found was
"good enough".

Be careful of "what if" analysis.......
Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 09:20:05 BST